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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1930)
* EDITORIALS * FEATURES HUMOR * LITERARY * || | v University of Oregon, Eugene Vinton Hall, Editor Anion Peterson, Manager Robert Allen, Managing Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Neil Taylor, News Editor Carol Hurlburt, Society Jack Burke, Sports I,ester McDonald, Literary Barney Miller, Features Warner Guiss, Chief Night Editor NEWS STAFF Star Reporters: Lois Nelson, Merlin Blais, Ralph David. Reporters: Betty Anne .Macduff, Denote Ely, Jessie Steele. Isabelle Crowell, Thelma Nelson, Helen Cherry, Jack Bellinger, Betty Davis. Helen Rankin, Beth Solway, GeOrge Thompson, Helen Rnitain. Merlin Blais, Elaine Wheeler, Roy Sheedy, Thornton Shaw, /.ora Beeninr, Rufus Kimball, Elinor Henry, Virginia Wentz, Ted Montgomery, Elinor Jane Ballantyne. Jim Brook. General Assignment Reporters: Mary Bohoskey, Eleanor Coburn, Joan Cox, Fred Fricke, Eleanor Sheeley, Barbara Jenning, Madeline Gilbert, Katherine Manerud, Katherine King. George Rool, Frances Taylor. Day Editors: Dorothy Thomas, Thornton Gale. Night-Editors: Eugene Mullins. Doug White. Assistants: Lois Weedy, George Sanford, Byron Brinton, Carl Metzen, Betty Carpen ter, Elinor Wood. BUSINESS STAFF Jack Gregg, Advertising Manager John Painton, Office Manager Larry ■Jackson. Foreign Advertising Betty Carpenter, Women's Specialties Ken Siegrist, Circulation Manager Harriet Hoffman, Sez Sue Addison Brockman, Assistant Manager Carol Werschkul, Executive Secretary Tile Oregon Daily Emerald, official publication of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Eugene, issued daily except Sunday and Monday, during the college year. Member of the Pacific Intercollegiate Press. Entered in the postoffiee at Eugene, Oregon, a.s second class matter. Subscription rates, $2.50 a year. Advertising rates upon application. Phone, Manager: Office, 1895; residence, 127. 9 Blow Off Steam WHEN the ideas of an editor are published they are offered to the public as a culmination of intensive thought. They are his own personal convictions and are forwarded as food for read ers’ minds that they may ponder over them, formulate and promul gate their own thoughts. Propagation of these ideas may he brought about through the columns of a newspaper. The Oregon Daily Emerald invites such comment and will afford space for writers who so desire to make known their ideas and ideals. In this column opinion may be broadened University-wide. As a purveyor of student opinion a section devoted to comment has always proven a promoter of readability. Ideas on the operation of campus functions, the activities of individuals, or various topics 1 of the day may readily find a vent. This column will bo called The Safety Valve, as It will provide an excellent opportunity for students, faculty, and others actively engaged in University work to blow off steam. The length of articles submitted will not exceed 200 words, and at all times the editor maintains the privilege of withholding publication should the article be a detriment to campus welfare. Letters should be ad dressed: To the Editor, Oregon Daily Emerald. Not as a department to arouse antagonism or disturb friend ship, it is a promoter of good and worthwhile ideas which may have been left untouched. The Emerald is a student paper, owned and operated by associated students, and ’should he adequately repre sentative of their thoughts. This, we repeat, may be brought about by personal correspondence. Advocacies published in the editorial column are those of the editor. That which he himself believes true, just and worthy is promoted. Activities thought to he incor rect are discouraged. In this is found sufficient reason for opening a field to aspiring leaders. Welcome Home the Warriors HPHE EMERALD nominates today l'or its special hall of fame the genial Doc Spears, who led 26 Oregon grid warriors to a spec tacular victory over the Drake Bulldogs at Chicago last Friday and who will return to the campus at noon today with his conquer ors of the Middle West. It will be a happy homecoming for Doc and his yellow-shlrted warriors, for the gloom that settled over the outfit on its long trek east was quickly dispelled under the lights of Soldiers’ Field as the Webfoots sank the Drakes with their smashing attack. Don’t forget the welcome-home rally this noon! Meet the Shasta and let Doc know the Oregon spirit is backing him to the limit. Only Freshmen Do "1T711EN freshmen consistently perform better than upperclass V' men, even better than they will do later in the two, three, or four years it takes themselves to move up, there must be some notice taken of it. Except for one meeting this year freshmen ap parently have always had that better record. Each year the new class is gathered to decide whether or not they will vote for a marked list of class officers. There is no secret about it. They do not hide the fact that the meeting is called for an election. The campus knows it. An excellent record! But ever after when class meetings are called only the elect know what it is all about. Let it lie a dance proposed, a summer vacation for athletes to be provided for from class funds, or a meet ing to discuss ways and means to avoid University restrictions let it be any of these or others, and there is only a notice that a meeting of the class will be held. “All members must be there.” These college men and women soon forget their high school technique. They no longer invite by designating something of in terest to occur; nothing so crude as that. Only freshmen would require a host of classmen to hold a dance or deplete a treasury. Hail, freshmen. A philosophy instructor who has recently returned from a trip to Europe asserts that there is not the appearance of luxury in the Scottish schools ns in American universities, We are simply astounded. Medicine men may recite poetry to bring rain, men who oppose this method advocate writing a prayer on a slip of paper, putting it in the skull of a horse, and putting the skull in water, but we just plan a good old fall picnic and take the top off our car and it pours. It you don t believe getting married wrecks one's college career socially, ask the Emerald society reporter. Three Oregon Co-Eds II orl; in San Francisco Flouts As one of many similar projects being carried on throughout nu merous American colleges, and uni; verriiUe.^'lhr'ee-'girls from the Uni versity of Oregon’took $15, obid good-bye to collegiate airs and went to San Francisco to place themselves in the shoes of the, working girl. Working in an asbestos factoiy where practically all the employees were women but wore overalls and were possessed of a distinctly masculine vocabulary was the t-.v pcrience of Alary Klemm and Nancy Thompson, while the third member of the trio. Marguerite Mauzey. earned her "daily bread" in an overall factory. In order that they might better study working and sanitary con ditions, the three girls took with them only enough money to sus tain them for the first few days' stay in San Francisco, They trusted to luck to find themselves jobs and it almost deserted them in the case of Mary Klemm—she had exactly 24 cents when work A DECADE AGO From the Emerald of October 8, 1920 A phone shortage hits the Uni versity. This problem was faced by the Eugene telephone company at the opening of the fall term due to the addition of so many new telephone users on the campus. A i 1 new supply was sent for in the East. Thirty-five aspirants turned out for the first band practice of the year. Professor Howe announces that his class in “Outlines of English Literature” has been changed from a three-hour course to both a three and four-hour course meet ing Monday, Wednesday, Thurs day, and Friday, .students wisning , to earn the extra hour in this j I course may do so by attending \ Thursday afternoons. The class . meets at 2 o'clock. — 2200 books were added to the University library during the sum- i mer, according to M. H. Douglass, librarian. This represents%an addi- j tion of 600 books a month, 20 per ! ! day, or one an hour. This brings the total number of books up to s ; approximately 96,500. -I o THE WETFOOT ♦ “ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FOOT TO PRINT" _____L —_ Knowing full well that all the prominent eating houses on the campus arc very anxious to know what kind of an impression they made during the rounds of Open House, this column will satisfy that want and inform them. Fol lowing is a young lady’s impres sion of the various fraternities. Take it or leave it. 'sr SIGMA CIIIS—Have all the earmarks of an American Legion convention. About 52 strong. Just full of clever parlor tricks, such as knocking cups off mantels, up setting furniture and tweaking the hostesses’ ears. Just a bunch of big, healthy, robust boys. BETAS—Very swaggering and self-possessed. Very dressed up. “We’re the Betas. Surely you knew I was a Beta. What!! Never heard of Beta Theta Pi ?” 1*111 I’SIS—Just a sweet bunch of kids, having the jolliest time. “Oh, yes, we got the pick of the freshmen this year.” SIGMA Nil—The Finns from Astoria, Norblad and Peterson, at the fore. Condescending. Joe Col lege. Proud of their new musi cians. KAI’I’ A S I G — Hordes and hordes of Absymal brutes. Looked and acted like a migration of the Cro-Magnon. PHI DELTS—Think that a good time consists in a lotta racket. Dreamland Rat race contest trans planted. ALLY OOPS—Not so many. Rather retiring. Smoked innu was located for hw. For two months they endeavored to acclim ate themselves to living conditions of the working girl forgetting all rules of syntax and grammar, and abandoning any mannerism that might mark them as different. At the conclusion of their sum mer's work, they returned and told members of the Y. W. C. A. of the conditions precisely as they found them. They agree that the experience was interesting for a mcrable cigarettes on the porch. SIGMA FI TACIS—Very agree able boys. We’re easy t6 get along with, whatever you say goes. Eager to please. SIGMA ALPHA MU—Took it all very seriously, as though it were encroaching upon valuable study time. The Reed coHege type. FIJI—A horde of divinely beau tiful Gigolo. Biceps and Brains not 'so hot. But could they dance-. A. T. O. — Upper Classmen standing around making the frosh do all the work. Bill Whitely the big lion. Outside of him the rest were an even break. CHI P8I — Family pedigrees given casual airing. Barrymore profiles much in evidence. Claim they’re exclusive. THETA CHI—This year's model; changed from last year’s rough-! neck type. Aspiring litterateurs, j Very Boring. Have evidently been reading George Elliot’s five-foot shelf of books. S. A. 1C.—Stood around looking sophisticated. About as much life as a well-regulated prayer meet ing. Future undertakers. A. B. C.—Riotous and just fulla good spirits. SIG El'S—Freck and Wilson, their prominent men, very con spicuous. Radiated confidence. Have evidently been reading “15 minutes a day.” DEBTS—Small number. Either imagine they’re too good, or else the rest were held for security by the bill collectors. It is even ru mored that they have organized a cellar gang. PHI SIG—Wave upon wave of shining pledge buttons. Had to argue strongly to keep 90 per cent while until the routine and mo notony impressed them, but they would rather not try it again. This investigation, while carried on under the sponsorship of the V. W. C. A., was purely voluntary the girls going because they chose. Like the other similar re searches going on in America, it is a disinterested searching into (he labor anti sanitary conditions of the working girl “with malice I toward neither capital nor labor.” of them from trying to sit in with the orchestra. The remainder tried to sing. Long hair and artis tic temperaments. BACHELORDON—Just a bunch of nice boys trying to get along. i Were perfect gentlemen. Almost. TOMORROW WE WILL PUB LISH THE HOPE ON THE WOM EN’S HOUSES, AS VIEW ED BY A MALE. DARING, SENSA TIONAL, AND ICONOCLASTIC. DON’T MISS IT! Education Club Meeting Tonight for First Time The first meeting of this term ol the Education club will be held this evening at 7:30 in room 3 of the education building. All grad uate students majoring in this de partment are asked to attend. Scheduled on the evening's pro gram are two talks. Ralph W. Leighton will tell o^ “The Univer sity of Oregon Researches in Col lege Teaching,” and Prof. Harold S Tuttle will speak about “The Education Emphasis at Teachers’ College.” Between Classes Yesterday we saw: HOLLY DANIELS convalescing; DEB ADDISON minus a belt; DORO THY WADE with a vacant stare; BTLL PREBLE coyly blushing; HELEN HUTCHINSON rushing madly through one of the Villard halls; WALT EVANS distributing cheery “hellos” all over the cam pus; NANCY NEVINS podding homeward for the noon-day snack; JOHN GALEY peering from be hind his new moustache; ARTHUR BOARDMAN emerging from the “Green Lantern”; and DICK GIV ENS looking for a snipe. PLEDGING ANNOUNCEMENT Delta Zeta announces the pledg ing of Kamilla Klekar, of Molin, Ore. Fifty million pen points can’t i»e wrong! Long ago Waterman’s turned out its fifty-millionth gold pen point. The gold pen point is so important a part of a fountain pen that Waterman s make their own — and have done so since ’87 were freshmen! 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Waterman’s When you select your Waterman s, have it nnea wuu Waterman’s ink — that's the tie plus ultra of writing luxury. Waterman’s new Blue Ink in the blue carton; Blue Biack in the yellow carton. Use the first for note taking and general correspondence, the second when permanency is needed. Every Waterman’s is guaranteed forever against defects. TODAY’S MEM' —Choice of-— linked limn, Sweet Potatoes Veal Cutlet l*'ruit Salad, Nut Dread I’eaeh Sundae Chocolate Cake Tea—Coffee—Milk < onto over and tr\ fiiis luncheon, j oil’ll be pleased, we know. Iii order to meet the demands of the campus food purse this year, the Anchorage lias consented to do its pari and will serve a noon luncheon for The usual Anchorage quality will be upheld and prompt service will be emphasized. McMorran & Washburne PHONE 2700 Important Dress Accessories These New LeatherBags Add The Finishing Touch To Your Costume $3.95 You will want to choose one of these new envelope or pouch ideas or underarm zippers that will match in so well with the other details of your costume. Genuine calf skin leather with colorful metal or stone motifs. Black —brown—blue—green. TUffr* Colorful Costume Jewelry $1.95-$2.95 Dainty necklaces add that bit of color to your costume. This fine assortment includes hand-carved bone in white and black and white. Other necklaces in orange — black — amber — green blue. Chokers and pendant lengths. sas Flat-Tone Chiffon Hose $1.65 Pure silk hose—dull chiffon that never turns shiny. Ex quisite dullness of crepe— delightfully sheer — tremen dously durable—permanently dull. Silk to top—picot edge — French heel — lisle rein forced foot. Fine New Kid or Suede Gloves $3.95 Lovely gloves of finest qual ity kid or suede leather—in slip-on or mosquteir style. 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